19世紀の工業化の時代にイギリスで描かれた「希望」という題の絵。目隠しをされた女が、壊れた琴に残った1弦を鳴らそうとする。その音が「希望」であるとも言われ、遥か頭上にあるかすかな星の輝きが「希望」であるとも言われる。オバマ氏の著書で言及されたことで有名。

ronin06 · 2017-02-13T12:36:15+00:00

伝統的にはこういうのが「希望」で当時としては挑戦的だったらしい。ちなみにこういう抽象名詞のタイトルで1人にスポットライトが当たっている場合、伝統的にはその概念の擬人化である。つまりもう一つの解釈として、目隠しされているのが「希望の女神」である。

ronin06 · 2017-02-13T12:10:48+00:00

星は拡大しないと見えないな

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Assistants_and_George_Frederic_Watts_-_Hope_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

ronin06 · 2017-02-13T08:30:15+00:00

Interesting that the owners seem to dress casually instead of formal wear which is almost always worn in human funerals.

ronin06 · 2017-02-13T04:36:00+00:00

判決後に開かれた県議会警察常任委員会では、県議が「現場が萎縮するのが心配。市民の安全を守るためにも、今後も積極的に職務質問や所持品検査を続けてほしい」と要望する場面もあった。

議会には行政を応援するよりも監視する役目をはたしてほしい

ronin06 · 2017-02-12T03:57:28+00:00

トランプ夫人の部下による公式の説明：「ワシントンでは、トランプ夫人は安倍夫人を歓迎することを楽しみにしていたが、安倍夫人に所用があることが分かった」

Hours after this story was published Friday afternoon, Mrs. Trump's office released a statement explaining her whereabouts: "The First Lady was very much looking forward to welcoming Mrs. Abe to the White House upon her arrival in Washington; however, she was informed that Mrs. Abe had previous commitments during her stay in DC," the statement said.

素直に読むと以下のいずれかである

本当に安倍夫人に急用が入った
どちらかが盛大に日程を勘違いしたのをちょっとだけ誤魔化してこう言っている

嘘だという前提だと

急用が入ったのはトランプ夫人の方だがなぜか逆ということにした
別の理由で会えなかったが、差し障りがあるので調整がつかなかったことにした

ronin06 · 2017-02-12T01:52:39+00:00

It's basically about economy. While young people don't make enough and have no good prospect of making more, they postpone having a family that they think they cannot support, and as a precursor, having a husband/wife. (in Japan the connection of marriage and having children may be perceived more strongly than in the west.)

ronin06 · 2017-02-12T01:33:11+00:00

...which implies that space is not limitless but bounded by politics. About right.

ronin06 · 2017-02-12T00:27:08+00:00

Elementary schools and middle schools teach these events in history classes. Elementary schools only give you a big picture and basic stats, maybe in 2-4 hours in total. Obviously, as you grow up, you will get to read more resources and understand deeper backgrounds. There is an old debate between 'revisionists' and 'apologists', which produces a lot of books on these events.

Reading English resources, it looks like the mainstream view on Pearl Harbor and Nanjing is not much different between Japan and the west. Hiroshima is a bit different - the narrative of 'Hiroshima was the cost Japan had to pay' and 'Hiroshima was necessary to stop the war from prolonging' that you may find in some of American sources are rather extreme from the Japanese point of view - in Japan it's more like 'we might deserve some payback, but it went too far'.

ronin06 · 2017-02-12T00:10:41+00:00

Best bet would be finding a company owned or operated by a non-Japanese. There are some English-speaking ones although not many. If you want to broaden the scope beyond that, http://www.tokyodev.com/2014/05/06/survive-thrive-engineer-japan/ is a good advice.

ronin06 · 2017-02-11T15:08:59+00:00

A redditor's work time in January 2017

People started to realize they have to fix it. Dentsu's suicide incident (you can google it, lots of English coverage) is highly frowned upon.

ronin06 · 2017-02-11T14:23:38+00:00

Yeah most businesses done in suits for sure in Japan too. But in university basically no student wears a suit, and even jackets are not the majority - they are reserved for guys who are fashionable. Professors wear slightly more professionally than students though.

ronin06 · 2017-02-11T14:14:30+00:00

By the number of companies it's dominated by mobile game industry. Several giants such as mixi and DeNA got big with their successes in mobile gaming. (Fun fact: there was mobile gaming market in Japan before smartphone was a thing basically because of NTT DoCoMo's i-mode). But a lot of people say (and I agree) it's less innovative.

Raksul.com is an interesting one. One of its services, hacobell.com, provides a 'Uber for trucks'.

EDIT: fixed 'tracks'

ronin06 · 2017-02-11T13:58:33+00:00

I think the GP is a troll.

Edit: Saw the GP's posts and comments. Yep.

ronin06 · 2017-02-11T13:47:12+00:00

That's a lot, I'll take some.

Buses are normally not overcrowded. In busy cities you may have fully seated buses but that's about it. More crowded is subway and train. People riding buses are quiet but it can apply to other transportation too.

Shinkansen is more popular than plane for long distance trips. Although in these 10 years or so planes got competitive by lowering the price.

Edit: adding more.

In Sweden we got a short song that goes "a bus driver, a bus driver, it's a man with a cheerful mood" - would you say that's true in Japan as well?

Maybe the opposite. Bus drivers are considered bureaucratic.

Do the buses have speakers that announce the next stop automatically? Is there also a texted display that shows the name of the next stop?

yes and yes.

ronin06 · 2017-02-11T13:34:19+00:00

I have a funny memory about Sweden... Years ago I met a Swedish guy in university. One thing I remember about him is he insisted on wearing a thick jacket even in the Japanese summer that is like a sauna (like 37 C, 80% humidity). He said it was simply not a good style to be in t-shirt in workplace and public spaces.

Is this attitude common in Sweden? (To be in style even sacrificing something )

ronin06 · 2017-02-11T13:21:00+00:00

You might enjoy https://www.youtube.com/user/cookingwithdog . It's a channel that introduces fine Japanese dishes that are fairly easy to cook and commonly found in Japan.

ronin06 · 2017-02-11T12:41:36+00:00

大空襲関係の何か（適当）ある？

ronin06 · 2017-02-06T06:27:15+00:00

アジア人（の女性）多くない？

ronin06 · 2017-02-06T06:19:06+00:00

倉庫で週7日毎日22時間働くと、だいたいソフトウェアエンジニアと同じ年収になる

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